GUPnP 0.12.8 released

Changes since 0.12.7

- Don't crash if device descriptions don't contain a root element.
- Fix pkg-config paths.
- Avoid using asserts.
- Use the closest match instead of using the icon that was last checked.
- Expect xmlRecoverMemory to fail.
- Reject action messages with zero content length.
- Change version in action answer.

Bug fixes in this release:

- bug#1570: gupnp doesn't set the pkgconfig lib dir correctly in 64 bit env.
- bug#1574: Avoid using asserts.
- bug#1592: gupnp_device_info_get_icon_url() does not return the closest match.
- bug#1604: Crash on action without any content.

All contributors to this release:

Ross Burton <ross@linux.intel.com>
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@gnome.org>
Steven Dorigotti <steven.dorigotti@tvblob.com>
Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
Jens Georg <mail@jensge.org></mail@jensge.org></s.neumann@raumfeld.com></steven.dorigotti@tvblob.com></zeeshanak@gnome.org></ross@linux.intel.com>

Download at: http://gupnp.org/sources/gupnp/gupnp-0.12.8.tar.gz

Syndicated 2009-06-03 12:17:00 (Updated 2009-06-03 12:20:03) from zeenix

Rygel 0.3 (Berlin is cool if it doesn't rain) is out

Rygel 0.3 (Berlin is cool if it doesn't rain) is out!

Here are is relase announcement:

Brief summary of changes since 0.2.2:

- Transcoding from any format (that gstreamer's decodebin2 can handle) to mp3,
 linear PCM and mpeg transport stream containing mpeg 2 video and mp2 audio.
- Plugin API to deal with user preferences.
- User preferences UI: rygel-preferences.
- New plugins:
  * Folder: Recursively exports folders specified in the user preferences.
  * ZDFMediathek: Exports online media from 2nd German TV station.
  * External: Exports media hierarchies provided by external applications
    through implementation of this spec:
    http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServer. The first application
    that utilizes this feature is PulseAudio.
- Drop xbox support. It didn't work anyway and we better concentrate on
 implementing standard stuff that it at least worthy of being called "UPnP" (
 at least for now).
- Tracker and DVB plugins are only loaded if their corresponding services are
 available.
- Export of duration for music and video items from Tracker.
- Use HTTP EOF encoding rather the CHUNKED for live streams.
- Ability to build rygel plugins outside it's source tree.
- HTTP proxying only if needed.
- Now that gupnp-av does DLNA profile guessing for us, no need to lie about
 DLNA profile anymore.
- Add a summary after configure.
- HTTServer is now internal API.
- Use git-version-gen to generate package version.
- Differentiate between modules and plugins
- Passive, asynchronous plugin loading. A side-effect of which is that modules
 can now load more than one plugin.
- Differentiate between name and title of the plugin.
- Plugins can now dynamically change their availability.
- Add API to get/list plugins.
- Re-use existing description from user's home directory. This not only speeds
 the start-up but also obsoletes the necessity to keep immutable data (e.g UDN)
 in user preferences.
- Provide gconf schemas.
- Lots of other improvements and bug fixes.

Dependency-related changes:

- Explicitly require and link to libsoup-2.4 >= 2.26.0.
- Don't require Vala (and bindings) in distribution tarball.
- Require gupnp-av >= 0.4.
- Require Vala >= 0.7.3.
- Require Gtk+ >= 2.16 if preferences UI is not disabled.

Bugs fixed in this release:

582173 - git-version-gen: generate versions with - instead of .
577000 - gupnp-av-cp does not like & in uris
576998 - Rygel wants to transcode audio files to video/mpeg
575935 - Add support for duration metadata field
574604 – bug connecting to PS3

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@gnome.org>
Jens Georg <mail@jensge.org>
Henrique Ferreiro <henrique.ferreiro@gmail.com>
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
Rob Taylor <rob.taylor@codethink.co.uk>

Download source tarball at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rygel/0.3/

Here is me watching streams from 2nd German TV channel, transcoded to mpeg transport stream through Rygel on my PS3:



Here is the video clip if you are interested or don't believe me. :)

Syndicated 2009-05-30 18:54:00 (Updated 2009-05-30 19:26:16) from zeenix

GUPnP Tools 0.7.1 released

Changes in this release:

- Use g_printerr() instead of g_critical() in case of problems.
- Initialize the GError to NULL at declaration.
- Declare variables as const to setisfy the compiler.
- Add missing casts.
- Use g_content_type_is_a() to compare mimetypes.
- Correct the order of mimetype check.
- Iterate over item resources rather than renderer protocols.
- Port all UIs to use GtkBuilder.
- Bump-up Gtk+ requirement to 2.16.

Removed dependency in this release: libglade.

Contributors to this release:

Sven Neumann <s.neumann@phase-zero.de>
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@gnome.org>

Download tarball here:
http://gupnp.org/sources/<wbr>gupnp-tools/gupnp-tools-0.7.1.<wbr>tar.gz

Syndicated 2009-05-12 20:40:00 (Updated 2009-05-12 20:45:08) from zeenix

GUPnP 0.12.7 released

GUPnP 0.12.7 released.

Changes in this release:

- Chain up dispose and finalize in GUPnPDeviceInfo
- Use a dedicated SoupSession for event handling
- Fix device icon fallback logic
- Fix user agent string
- Sanity check UDN while parsing

Download source tarball from: http://gupnp.org/sources/gupnp/gupnp-0.12.7.tar.gz

Contributors to this release:

Sven Neumann
Ross Burton
Zeeshan Ali

Syndicated 2009-04-27 12:38:00 (Updated 2009-04-27 12:42:47) from zeenix

GUPnP on windows

I have been asked several times in the past if gupnp is portable enough. I always told them that I don't know for sure but the only problem i see is the low-level networking bits. Nobody really showed interest in actually trying it out on windows but then came Jens Georg. He managed to make gupnp stack and network-light working on windows within a weekend, despite the fact that some of his hours were wasted due to firewalls being enabled after a reboot and him forgetting about it. He has a small video of network-light running nicely on win32 on his blog.

Syndicated 2009-04-27 11:48:00 (Updated 2009-04-27 12:01:26) from zeenix